Blow it up

Format: Commander

Commander: Child of Alara

Bracket: 1

Deck overview

This deck is a pure meme build helmed by Child of Alara, with the remaining 99 cards being basic lands-19 Forest, 20 Island, 20 Mountain, 20 Plains, and 20 Swamp. The entire strategy revolves around casting Child of Alara, letting it die (via combat or a sacrifice effect the deck does not actually contain), and triggering its one-sided board wipe that destroys all nonland permanents. Since the deck has no other nonland permanents, the wipe is effectively one-sided. The only win condition is slowly grinding opponents down with commander damage from Child's 6/6 trample body over many turns, or forcing concessions through repeated board resets. There is no ramp, no card draw, no tutors, no interaction, and no protection-the deck is entirely dependent on its commander and the luck of the draw to assemble five colors of mana.

Decklist (89 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Child of Alara
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Darksteel Myr
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Day of Judgment
  • 1 Dosan the Falling Leaf
  • 1 Dáin Ironfoot
  • 1 Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gingerbread Cabin
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Khalni Garden
  • 1 Killmonger, Scourge of Wakanda
  • 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wrath of God
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast